Your mind is oriented towards the world around you through your thoughts and intellect. You enjoy memorizing, analyzing, and verbalizing your mental images. You are naturally social and make friends quickly. Your contacts and networks are important to you because they help you grow. You enjoy any form of play, and only severe depression will deprive you of your humor and animation. You are also sensitive, but your emotions and feelings are sometimes under control of your intellect. You can’t free yourself to the strength of strong passions and energies without idealizing them and giving them intellectual resonance. Wary of your irrational instincts and urges, you tend to control or repress them. But you need to learn that the intellect is not omnipotent and that instinct can be powerful. You inhabit a complex inner world and sometimes feel vulnerable due to your emotionalism and sensitivity to the aggressions of the outer world. Because you rely on your adaptability and agility to wriggle out of trouble, you may make questionable compromises with yourself – all the more likely if your moral fiber is made of wax, as is often the case. You need to overcome weaknesses that include instability, wishy-washiness, a lack of determination and coherence in your thought.

Due to the influence of Virgo rising, your personality is ruled by reason. Your intellectual functions tend to predominate over your emotional or sentimental impulses. Your mind, which is analytical and critical, is naturally questioning and skeptical; you have great faith in rational positivism and strive to be pragmatic. You have a considerable potential for accomplishment. Although others generally appreciate your conscientious, scrupulous conduct, your devotion to others and realism, they might be critical of your meek behavior and tendency to overthink. Indeed, you are so meticulous that you often “cannot see the forest for the trees” and may fret and worry unnecessarily over tiny details. You can even be cerebral about your emotions, and you might hesitate to give them free expression. Actually, you could be burdened by a strong feeling of anxiety which causes you to counteract your instinctive urges. You might struggle with pessimism and a reluctance to trust others or yourself. You have a strong desire for self-improvement and transformation. Characteristically, you think some sort of conscious action could result in change. The key lies in learning to accept your emotions and subjectivity. It will be a challenge, but with the help of time and maturity, you are likely to succeed. The latter part of your life should be even happier and more fulfilling.

Brecken Merrill needs movement. He is a talented communicator.

Brecken Merrill needs others to fulfill himself and accomplish his ambitions.

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Virgo (the Virgin), while the sun was passing through the sign of Gemini (The Twins). Your personality profile is summarized by the following key words:

Modesty – Need for contact – Analytical thought – Mental agitation – Strict logic – Frivolity – Attention to detail – Dilettantism – Perfectionism – Immaturity – Anxiety and worry – Communication – Nervousness – Inner duality.

The key characteristic of your personality is your need for movement in change. You are intelligent and quick to understand new information, but you can be easily distracted. You are driven to improve yourself, and you will need to develop concentration and learn to resist outside influences. To progress in your life, you will need to focus on method and organization.

Brecken Merrill was born on the three and one-half days after the full moon rose. As a “full moon” lunar type, Brecken has an objective, rational character, but also a more idealistic penchant. This multi-faceted self is strongest during the time of the full moon, which is when Brecken’s monthly energy flow is at its strongest. As a result, it would be wise for Brecken to schedule intensive work phases at this time, as well as ambitious and demanding projects.